Where should the pagefile go?


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My pagefile has always lived on my C: drive, but recently I read this at the MSKB. Should the pagefile be moved to another partition?

By default, Windows places the pagefile on the boot partition where the operating system is installed. To determine the size of the pagefile multiply the amount of physical RAM by 1.5 to a maximum of 4095MB. However, placing the pagefile on the boot partition does not optimize performance because Windows has to perform disk I/O on both the system directory and the pagefile. Therefore, it is recommended that you place the pagefile on a different partition and different physical hard disk drive so that Windows can handle multiple I/O requests more quickly.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;Q197379
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If you have one one partition, the pagefile goes on the same where the OS is. If you have multiple partitions, put it on the one which hangs on the outer tracks of the disk (more speed). If you have multiple disks, put it on a disk where there aren't OS files, and preferable a disk which is fast and least used.

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I read this intereseting article where they said to keep the Pagefile on the same partition as the OS. Why?, will if you keep all the OS files on one partition and the Pagefile on another partition on the same drive, then the read/write heads would have to move from one partition to another to read and write information between the two partitions. Now if the pagefile remained on the OS partition, the heads would not have to move such a long distance to write the pagefile and then back to read OS files. Make sense yet?

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move it to the disk that is used the least... that's just as logical as it gets, can't see why u are having trouble realizing it...

it's virtual ram basically, so u do want performance right? and you won't get performance if the disk is used much.

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